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The UK's 'MostMichelin' ingredients revealed The ingredient specialists at Sous Chef have uneart
Michelin stars . If you eat in the UK’s best restaurants, you’re almost guaranteed to find chocolate, caviar or potato.
Chocolate appears on 80% of all the Michelin menus analysed, used in delights such as Smoked Jivara Chocolate mousse at The Waterside Inn, and the CorianderWhite Chocolate Dome at Midsummer House. Potato and Caviar each appear on 72% of the menus analysed – putting the humble spud on equal footing with one of the most expensive ingredients in the world. Michelin chefs also favour beetroot and mushrooms over more luxurious crab and oysters.
When it comes to the crème de la crème of restaurants – the ones with 3 stars – menus become even more refined. Here, in place of chocolate and potato, we see lobster, caviar and foie gras but interestingly hazelnut, sweetcorn,mushroom and celeriac also take equal billing at the top.
Meanwhile, smoking tops the chart of Michelin techniques – it’s used as a description on 68% of the menus analysed, while pickling is not far behind with just over half of the restaurants offffering something pickled on their menu (52%).
The 3-star restaurants also display a notable classic French approach with prominent techniques including confit, puree and coulis. The top-ranked ingredients are intriguingly meat-free with seafood dominating the top spots. Further down the list, pork is the most mentioned meat – appearing on 52% of menus (ahead of duck, chicken, beef and lamb).
Sous Chef founder Nicola Lando says: “As a specialist ingredient retailer, it’s fascinating to see which ingredients appear again and again on the menus of the UK’s best restaurants. This data gives us a real insight into the trends shaping our food scene, and a solid understanding of which ingredients chefs love to work with. For instance, I’m delighted to see wild mushrooms are so popular – they’re incredibly versatile and are bringing huge variety to both meat and meat-free dishes. Unusual peppers – as a spice alternative – are also inence.
cooking in 2020. “It’s also intere growing in prom
sting to see there’s no red meat or poultry on the top 12 list, perhaps reflecting a further move towards veg-focused Meanwhile, we’ve seen smoking and pickling grow in popularity with our customer base over the last few years – both
chefs and hom e cooks – and it is clear these tra ditional preserving methods are firm favourites with Michelin ch efs . MOSTMICHELIN INGREDIENTS
Chocolate
Lemon Caviar Potato
Mushroom Beetroot
Scallops Apple
Lobster Onion Crab To
Tomato
MOSTMICHELIN TECHNIQUES Smoke
Sauce Roaste Pickled
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Ice-cream Sorbet
Confit Tart
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Souffffle Jus
Poached To
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